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Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
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Verse 8. Leopards: the swiftest quadrupeds. Calmet.—The horses near the Euphrates were swift and warlike. Oppian.—Swifter. Hebrew “sharper” ( Bible.) in seeing, even when there is no moon. Elian x. 26.—Evening. Septuagint “Arabian.” Bible.—It may denote the hyena of that country, which is most terrible. Guevar.
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